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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

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Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass.

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

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Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world.

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AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

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Charles Simonyi , the person who created Microsoft word. Lee: Let’s say someone is talented and could become an architect, but that person just graduated from college and isn’t there yet. If you expect an assembly line worker to become a robot repair person, it isn’t going to be so easy." —Kai-Fu Kai-Fu Lee, Sinovation Ventures.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Didn’t at all.

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Forecasting the Ice Loss of Greenland’s Glaciers With Viscoelastic Modeling

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1) Greenland’s sparsely populated landscape may seem unspoiled, but climate change is actually tearing away at its icy mantle. 3) He says, “The models for Greenland underestimate the current changes in the ice sheet due to climate change.” It is a fantastic tool for trying out new ideas.

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Going with the talent flow

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Resiliency in advocacy When the pandemic started and EVEVA in-person events were curtailed, “I was concerned about how we would keep our community outreach advocacy going,” Baum remarked. Using Burma-Shave signs seemed like an idea that would work for us.” Once the benefits are understood, it will get support.”

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